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Police Chief Says Thousands Trapped in New Orleans Convention Center
AP ^ | 1-Sept-2005 | AP

Posted on 09/01/2005 2:49:12 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo

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To: jpsb

I agree. And I DO think this is a vision of things to come. In any given incident, the authorities can handle things. But sometimes, the citizens might find themselves on their own for lengthy periods of time, and God help them if they aren't prepared.


341 posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:41 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: editor-surveyor

Good point! Sounds a lot like Haiti!


342 posted on 09/01/2005 3:47:27 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Congress needs to lift Posse Comitatus prohibition in this case. In fact, I think Congress is the only one who can under Article II. Maybe if they can pass the spending bill tmo, then they can allow the military to move in and take control of New Orleans.

Yeah, I think the gangs need to be taken out. Shoot to kill. That, unfortunately, is the only way to stop this.


343 posted on 09/01/2005 3:48:01 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Blessed

Yes...there's no one dying from dehydration, as we speak, is there?

Going on three days now.

But helicopters are brought in with sand....

not fresh water.

Good thinking on your part.


344 posted on 09/01/2005 3:48:01 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Dumpster Baby

>I just heard a National Guard commander on tv say "we don't shoot people for stealing televisions in this country".

Remember the lines from "The Hill"

"What are you going to do, Sergeant Major, shoot all us rioters?"

"No, just every fifth man!"

End of riot


345 posted on 09/01/2005 3:48:09 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Had lawful authority made a highly visible show of force at the onset of all this, much of this violence and idiocy would have been avoided.

I'm a moderate on this issue. I wouldn't advocate shooting someone for looting food or water from the Winn Dixie, but at some point (which has now been passed) you give the security personnel live ammo and authorization to use it to protect the hospitals and the lives and well being of the innocents.

346 posted on 09/01/2005 3:48:32 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: MindBender26

If there's a gaping hole in the front of my house due to natural disaster, come on in and try to take the T.V. See what happens. ;-)


347 posted on 09/01/2005 3:49:07 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: TexanToTheCore

Well said! Boy, so many people have so much to learn in this country - treat 'em like children and they act like children. What ever happend to working together and helping each other until help comes?


348 posted on 09/01/2005 3:49:23 PM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: Fitzcarraldo
We Ought to Invade New Orleans . . . ! . . . Yeah, right . . \8^)

< / snickers> . . . < / huge guffaws> . . . < / stifled laughing>

349 posted on 09/01/2005 3:49:47 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: wolfcreek
IT's a new idea,It's called a basic plan, MAN. You asked "What were they to do"

How nice. But you don't want responses. *shaking head* Ok.

350 posted on 09/01/2005 3:49:56 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: nicmarlo

You still haven't explained where you would get the water from.They have one helicopter that dropped one sandbag an hour ago.


351 posted on 09/01/2005 3:50:25 PM PDT by Blessed
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To: RoseofTexas

The governments of the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana have known for decades that this could happen, but they did not adequately prepare for it.

Now they blame Bush, who has had only a few years in office and is running the WOT as well as the rest of the country.

I get sick of people blaming the President for what the local and state governments should have been prepared for.

Of course, it would have been very expensive, but look at it now.

I feel terribly sorry for most of those trapped in NO, but so very many of them are there by choice. They did not trust the untrustworthy media and the politicans.

I think most do not understand the extreme logictics problems of getting people and materiel into the city. It would do no good just to put people in without the supplies required to do be effective.

When we do send in troops, the people do not want them. I heard one man say that if we send in NG troops to the Convention Center, there will be a gun battle.

What does the government do? They are wrong no matter what they do.

Having said that, there is an incredible number of people who are selflessly helping those in need. May God bless them.


352 posted on 09/01/2005 3:51:31 PM PDT by arjay (Grow bold, not old.)
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To: Captain Kirk; PetroniDE
Just did. What do you REALLY think?

I think you're a TROLL.

353 posted on 09/01/2005 3:51:38 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: aShepard
'perfect opportunity '

Agreed. if there are plans they will now be put in action.

354 posted on 09/01/2005 3:52:09 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: Blessed

No, I guess you couldn't imagine where water would come from.


355 posted on 09/01/2005 3:52:25 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: GSWarrior

Dead troll

http://www.freerepublic.com/~woundfiller/in-forum


356 posted on 09/01/2005 3:52:29 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Cindy Sheehan has ZERO for an IQ and does not speak for most of the USA..)
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To: badpacifist
I would say that what you see before your eyes is the true nature of uncivilized people controlling the few civilized people left in a natural disaster.

I think we are seeing Rosseau's natural man in his natural state, left to do as he pleases.

357 posted on 09/01/2005 3:52:51 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: HairOfTheDog
"There's a disconnect between him saying "the food and water are being distributed right now" and live cameras showing nothing of the sort."

Yeah. I'm sure those three or four live cameras provide all the coverage you need to make that assessment. The guy is obviously lying. But then, I guess several reporters are too, because the ones who have been in or around the Superdome have said people are getting food and water. And reporters further away from the Superdome are showing people recieving food and water. I also heard earlier today that there are no buses showing up at the Superdome today, and no National Guard troops there either. But later live cameras showed a very significant presence of both. Maybe we all need to realize that we are not getting the whole picture watching breathless live reporting from cable news.

358 posted on 09/01/2005 3:53:01 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Blessed
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=40170

Doctors appealing for help

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Doctors at two public hospitals in New Orleans have called The Associated Press to plead for rescue. The physicians say they are nearly out of food and power and have been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.

Doctor Norman McSwain says he and his colleagues at Charity Hospital have turned to The AP as a last resort. McSwain says he tried calling the mayor and the governor, using any “inside pressure” possible, to no avail.

McSwain says there’s minimal water. The food amounts to fruit bowl punch. The scene is similar at University hospital.

Another doctor, Lee Hamm, says somehow the two public facilities have been forgotten -- or ignored.

Levee Repairs under way

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers says a breach in the New Orleans levee system will be repaired by day’s end.

But a second section will take longer because of difficulties ferrying equipment and material to that part of the city.

Corps commander Carl Strock says the focus is to stop the water from entering the city so that draining can begin.

359 posted on 09/01/2005 3:53:04 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Rosenkreutz

The animals have come out to play and the "adults" are limp wrist liberals who can't figure out what to do. What else would you expect?


360 posted on 09/01/2005 3:53:22 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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